After the Coalition's record victory in 2011, NSW Liberal Premier Mike Baird will face a tougher contest in 2015 against new Labor Leader Luke Foley. January's surprise defeat of Campbell Newman's LNP government in Queensland, and the Baird government's far reaching proposal to lease the state's electricity infrastructure, mean that nothing can be taken for granted.

New South Wales Premier Mike Baird leads his Coalition government into the 2015 election with an enormous majority in Parliament and well ahead in the preferred premier ratings, but with a narrowing lead over Labor in polls.